Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats. Howard Aiken

Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves. Herbert Hoover

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation. Charles Kettering

I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod. Winston Churchill

I buy when other people are selling. J. Paul Getty

I don't think meals have any business being deductible. I'm for separation of calories and corporations. Ralph Nader

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me. John Cleese

I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for - getting paid for doing what you love. Tiger Woods

I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill. Edward Appleton

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business. Henry David Thoreau

I want to put a ding in the universe. Steve Jobs

I was told to avoid the business all together because of the rejection. People would say to me, 'Don't you want to have a normal job and a normal family?' I guess that would be good advice for some people, but I wanted to act. Jennifer Aniston

I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money. Lord Acton

If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion. George Bernard Shaw

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them. Jane Fonda

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance. Abraham Lincoln

If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go out and play as I did when I was a kid. Thomas J. Watson

If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable. Will Rogers

If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars. J. Paul Getty

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work. Kahlil Gibran

If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business. B. C. Forbes

If you have to forecast, forecast often. Edgar R. Fiedler

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been. Robert H. Schuller

If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free - however free one can be on this planet. Theodore White

If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem. J. Paul Getty

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing. William Wordsworth

In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later. Harold S. Geneen

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. Benjamin Franklin

Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results. Scott Adams

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower. Steve Jobs

Inside every working anarchy, there's an Old Boy Network. Mitchell Kapor

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. Adam Smith

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. Mark Twain

It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain. Dale Dauten

It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference. Tom Brokaw

It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts. Will Rogers